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Is shorthand still relevant in the digital age? You bet it is.
My first instalment on conditional formatting broached the standard, by-the-book protocol for applying conditions to cells: selecting the cells you want to subject to the potential formats, and then specifying those conditions that when realized would put the formats in play.
WordPress is ten years old in May and the parallels with Facebook, which was set up in 2004, are compelling. It’s like a tale of two brothers where one took to the world of dog-eat-dog capitalism with a devouring relish while the other became a missionary spreading the good word of open source.
Four journalism students from Northampton University secured the first interview with the BBC's Eddie Mair since his controversial interview with London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sunday.
David Hencke saw off competition from major news organisations to win Political Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for fledgling news website exaro. The judges described his revelations over widespread Whitehall tax avoidance as a “major scandal”.
Like many great stories, it started with a whistleblower.
Here’s something. A journalist I ran into, an editor, in fact, told me about flying out of an airport in a developing country after a fact-finding trip he had been on.
Conditional formatting, Part 1: A couple of things you need to know
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Earlier this month the true horror of the Jimmy Savile story was finally brought into the open when police revealed that the former DJ may have committed 214 sex crimes, including 34 rapes.
Two words come up time and again when City AM editor Allister Heath is asked to talk about the newspaper’s strategy over the past four years: ‘discipline’ and ‘prudence’.
Global news agency Reuters takes on about 15 journalism trainees each year globally from about 2,000 applications.
The application process opens in September and closes mid-December, with trainees starting the following September in the company’s newsrooms in London, New York and across Asia.
Telegraph Media Group takes on around six editorial trainees (from up to 2,500 applicants) per year.
Rohit Kachroo was sponsored by Carlton Television to do a postgraduate course in broadcast journalism at Cardiff University.
Martin Samuel was in New York, poised to cover Andy Murray’s historic US Open victory, when he was told he had been voted as the best sports journalist in Press Gazette’s top 50 list. Three days earlier, he had been in Moldova to watch England in a World Cup qualifier.
Last week Press Gazette revealed that The Sun was the UK's second most popular publication on Facebook with more than 600,000 'likes'. Unusually for a national newspaper, The Sun has a far bigger following on Facebook that it does on Twitter (169,199).
The United States Anti-Doping Agency yesterday accused Lance Armstrong of being the ringleader of the “most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen”. Here, Sunday Times sports reporter David Walsh talks to Press Gazette about his relentless pursuit of the shamed cyclist.
Simon Tait is a freelance journalist, former arts correspondent of The Times and co-editor of Arts Industry magazine. You can contact him at www.staitarts.com
The death knock is undoubtedly one of the most challenging aspects of being a journalist.
I feel sorry for journalists today. They sit at their desks like battery hens, sipping Evian water and eating half-frozen sandwiches from the vending machine.
